In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military action against Gaza called "Operation Protective Edge", as a response to Hamas rocket attacks. The conflict brought to the fore important debates in b

Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 51, 2017 Abstract The popularity of research into categories has grown in recent decades and shows no sign of abating. This introductory article takes

For three years, three researchers and two research assistants have surveyed and interviewed a group of people who are remarkably invisible in research. it's remarkable since it is a category of peopl (in Swedish).

Expertise in crises

Governments are now reevaluating their post-pandemic preparedness. The project analyzes how society can use expertise to develop science-based policies in times of crisis.

SN Social Sciences Abstract Knowledge of factors contributing to cybercrime threats is needed to plan effective prevention strategies to combat the increasingly common occurrence of cybercrime. This scon

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an instance of terrorism or simply mass m

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Impacts of past climate variability – lessons for the 21st century

The talk summarizes key findings of state-of-the-art research on how climate variability and change have affected different aspects of human history in medieval and early modern Europe (c. 700–1815 CE

ONLINE SEMINAR Therese Lindahl, Programme Director, PhD, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Abstract This presentation will first summarize the main findings of the SNS Economic Policy Council Rep

This seminar was postponed from October 14th to November 11th. Kirsti M. Jylhä, Ph.D. psychology AbstractThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is influencing our lives at many levels. The new corona virus is not

Seminar with Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. Register here > Abstract In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an